Harvard Law School alumni

Daniel Eric Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and law professor who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University in 2001, and after working as a law clerk to a federal judge and as an associate at a law firm, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2005.

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the Civil War, Hayes left a fledgling political career to join the Union army. He was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. Hayes earned a reputation for bravery in combat, rising in the ranks to serve as brevet major general. After the war, he was a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction of the Republican Party. Hayes served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876 to 1877 before his swearing-in as president.

lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)

American politician and businessman (born 1947)

American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)

former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

American politician (born 1963) and former United States Secretary of State (2018–2021)

American politician (born 1970)

12th and 13th President of Republic of China(Taiwan)

Charles Ellis Schumer is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025. He has served two stints as Senate minority leader, from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025. He became New York's senior senator in 2001, upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan's retirement. Elected to a fifth term in 2022, Schumer surpassed Moynihan and Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving U.S. senator from New York. He is the dean of New York's congressional delegation.

American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 (1900–1965)

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005

39.º President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010

President of India from 1992 to 1997

American politician (born 1978)

American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016

American lawyer and activist (born 1934)

American actress and singer

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, media host, attorney, and movie director. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until his resignation in 2016. Shapiro has also authored sixteen non-fiction books.

American lawyer and politician (born 1958)

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

Irish-American academic, author and diplomat

United States Secretary of War (1867-1950)

US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022

American politician

American businessman (1924–2023)

American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018

American lawyer and jurist (born 1970)

American legal philosopher (1931-2013)

16th United States Secretary of Energy

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010

American Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)

Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile

prime minister of Luxembourg since 2023

former Attorney General of the United States (1938-2016)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2017 (born 1967)

American politician and army officer (born 1977)

South African lawyer, judge and human rights activist

86th United States Attorney General

11th President of the World Bank Group

American lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)

American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982)

Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015

54th Governor of New York from 2007 to 2008

David Lindon Lammy is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since September 2025. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy previously held various junior ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2002 and 2010.

American legal academic (born 1959)

United States Senator from California

United States Senator from Virginia

80th United States Attorney General

Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)

President of Botswana

American boxer and bobsledder (1897-1967)

American politician (born 1949)

American politician

American lawyer and jurist (1939–2025)

American politician (1923–2010)

American politician (1917-2006)